{"id":4430,"date":"2026-05-11T18:14:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:14:50","slug":"a-new-initiative-on-the-big-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/a-new-initiative-on-the-big-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"A new initiative on &#8216;the big questions&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sundeep Waslekar and Ilmas Futehally &#8211; two friends who who collaborated with us for many years in the Conferences on the Resolution of Intractable Conflict at Oxford and are now very supportive colleagues in The Concord Foundation &#8211; have launched a new platform to encourage discussion on fundamental questions facing humanity. We need to think about these things, but they tend to be absent from much everyday conversation and social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first question they have asked was posed by Einstein to Freud: &#8220;Is there any way of delivering humankind from the menace of war?&#8221; I was delighted to join this debate with a few serious thinkers including three Nobel Peace Laureates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sundeep and Ilmas are inviting you to reflect on the answers and post your own thoughts and reactions to the points already made using the Comment section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have other interesting questions lined up for the next few months with scholars from around the world responding to them. You are welcome to reflect on the current question, as well as participate in future discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the link &#8211; <br><a href=\"https:\/\/strategicforesight.com\/is-there-any-way-of-delivering-humankind-from-the-menace-of-war\/#lord\">https:\/\/strategicforesight.com\/is-there-any-way-of-delivering-humankind-from-the-menace-of-war\/#lord<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sundeep Waslekar and Ilmas Futehally &#8211; two friends who who collaborated with us for many years in the Conferences on the Resolution of Intractable Conflict at Oxford and are now very supportive colleagues in The Concord Foundation &#8211; have launched a new platform to encourage discussion on fundamental questions facing humanity. We need to think<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-news-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}